soiled dove

English

Noun

soiled dove (plural soiled doves)

  1. (obsolete, euphemistic) A disreputable woman, sometimes a prostitute.
    • 1867, Ouida (Maria Louise Ramé), Idalia
      […] thought the telegraphist, with a yawn, returning to his dog-eared green-covered shilling novel, relating the pungent adventures of a soiled dove of St. John's Wood, […]

References
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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